A90278:139
Of the death of Christ, the price he paid, and the purchase he made.…
Of the death of Christ, the price he paid, and the purchase he made. Or, the satisfaction, and merit of the death of Christ cleared, the universality of redemption thereby oppugned: and the doctrine concerning these things formerly delivered in a treatise against universal redemption vindicated from the exceptions, and objections of Mr Baxter. / By J. Owen, minister of the gospel.Of the death of Christ, the price he paid, and the purchase he made. Or, the satisfaction, and merit of the death of Christ cleered, the universality of redemption thereby oppugned: and the doctrine concerning these things formerly delivered in a treatise against universal redemption vindicated from the exceptions, and objections of Mr Baxter. / By J. Owen, minister of the gospel.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
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1 The Matter of the Obligation having plainly a double Consideration, as before, it may be both Executed and Relaxed in sundry respects. 2 The Idem and very thing threatened in the Constitution of the Law, is death; The Terminating of that Penalty to the Person Offending, was in the Commination, and had it not been Released, must have been in the Execution: but in the Constitution of the Obligation which respects purely the kind of Penalty, primarily it was not. Death is the reward of Sin, is all that is there. 3 We Enquire not about Payment, but Suffering. To make that suffering a Payment supposeth another Constitution: by virtue whereof Christ suffering the same that was threatened: it became another thing in Payment, then it would have been, if the Person Offending had suffered himself. 4 That the Law threatened not Christ but us, is most true: but the Question is, Whether Christ underwent not the threatening of the Law, not we? A Commutation of Persons is allowed, Christ undergoing the Penalty of the Offence, though he were not the Person Offending, I cannot but still suppose that he paid the Idem of the Obligation. 5 For the Parenthesis about Christ's not suffering the loss of Gods love, &c. and the like Objections, they have been ⟨p. 20⟩Answered near a thousand times already, and that by no ordinary Divines neither; so that I shall not further trouble any therewith.
1 The Matter of the Obligation having plainly a double Consideration, as before, it may be both Executed and Relaxed in sundry respects. 2 The Idem and very thing threatned in the Constitution of the Law, is death; The Terminating of that Penalty to the Person Offending, was in the Commination, and had it not been Released, must have been in the Execution: but in the Constitution of the Obligation which respects purely the kind of Penalty, primarily it was not. Death is the reward of Sin, is all that is there. 3 We Enquire not about Payment, but Suffering. To make that suffering a Payment supposeth another Constitution: by vertue whereof Christ suffering the same that was threatned: it became another thing in Payment, then it would have been, if the Person Offending had suffered himself. 4 That the Law threatned not Christ but us, is most true: but the Question is, Whether Christ underwent not the threatning of the Law, not we? A Commutation of Persons is allowed, Christ undergoing the Penalty of the Offence, though he were not the Person Offending, I cannot but still suppose that he paid the Idem of the Obligation. 5 For the Parenthesis about Christ's not suffering the loss of Gods love, &c. and the like Objections, they have been